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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1969 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN DAfZP OSU trustees okay open-housing rules "Ww omen today w COLUMBl'S. OHIO -(I.P.) The Ohio State University Board of Trustees has approved open-housing rules aimed at prohibitum discrimination in rental of off-campus housing to students. The proposal had been before the trustees last April, but the board deferred action at that time until an opinion on its legality could be ob tained from the attorney general of Ohio. ' . As adopted by the board, the rules contained an amendment which provided procedures through which property owners could appeal discrimination ridings to a three-member Housing Ap peals Panel. A student, a faculty member and an ad ministrator will make up the appeals boa . Ohio State President Novice G. Fawcett recom mended the amendment as Hie best means, he said, of meeting concerns for pro tecting rights of property 'owners as expressed in the opinion issued May 2 by the attorney-general. The opinion did state that the University's trustees had the required authority to adopt the proposal. An U-member student faculty Open Housing Panel, a body which will determine the fact of discrimination, will act on complaints transmitted by the Office of the Special Assistant for Student Affairs and received from any student, the vice president for student affairs, or the director of housing. Experience with the ad ministration of the rule or possible future court rulings may well necessitate further revision, according to Presi dent Fawcett. "We will, of course, make any subsequent changes reuired to guarantee rights of all in our efforts to make equal housing available to all our students, "Clearly nothing in our rule or procedures precludes the application of ap propriate civil procedures, the .seeking of individual remedies before the Ohio Civil Rights Commission or of resource to the courts." The basic policy statement was drawn up by a Law Student-Faculty Ad Hoc Committee on Open Housing after a survey of housing in the campus area. The survey by the students disclosed w.iai l he committee termed "overt and significant discrimination." By Sara Sehwiedcr Nebraskan Staff Writer "When you talk about the women's liberation move ment, you're talking about relationships," the soft voice said. The room was quiet. "It is a question of how a woman functions in society in rela tion to a m&n and how she sees herself as well as her place in society." The soft voice oddly enoug.i to a crusader for women's liberation named Claudia Johnson, speaking to a small group in the Union Thursday about what women's libera tion. Miss Johnson and Miss Betsy Gwynn were sponsored by the VWCA. "Women are oppressed," Miss Gwynn commented. "For thousands of years, belonged whatever males do be It plowing crops or staying home and letting women plow the crops is valued more highly. It is a deeply rooted cultural pattern that must be changed." Why must it be changed? Some women are tired of playing games a woman must play. Old stereotypes are offensive now: Why must one be coy, stupid, scatter- are 'oppressed NFU plans finalized Nebraska Free University course plans wil be finalized this weekend according to John Marcotte. who is in charge of the curriculum. "We're trying to get the course fairly well set." Marcotte said. "We hope to be finished by Monday." Pamphlet information and letters to freshmen will be ready bv the last part of next week, he "a d d e d Registration will start Oct. 13th and conclude Oct. 17th. The delay in the program was "bv design," according to Marcotte. "We had to plan it this wav," he said, "because we're Increasing the courses to accommodate more people." "We have about 35 courses set up now," Marcotte added, "and have several more leads to follow up. We had to alter the format somewhat to make more registration available." Marcotte said about 1,000 persons participated in NFU courses last vear and he expects at least that manv to participate this year. The ASUN appropriated the cur riculum $2,300 with which to operate his year, an increase of $1,700 from at year "Teachers still will not be paid. Marcotte said, "but they will ? b,K8er resource fund upon w.uch to set aside special course pro grams." 1 "The most popular course last year," ,e added, "was the marriage i'ml family adjustment course with Dr. Alan Pickering. There was such an overwhelming response last year that we are making plans to ac commodate more persons this year." "The counter-group leadership training courses are also among the most popular," he added. "We're trying to make room in those courses too. ' One of the most interesting new , courses to be offered this vear ac cording to Marcotte. is a 'program to study the American Indian situa tion. "More people are becoming in terested in this situation." he said' Enrollment exceeds 32,000 Enrollment on all four campuses of the University of Nebraska In Lin coln and Omaha has reached a new high of 32.497 students this fall, an increase of 2.451 compared to a ve.ir ago at this time, according to Acting Chancellor Merk Ilobson. This represents an increase of eight per cent in the total enrollment at the University. National projections forecast a l!Xi-70 increase of three per cent In Institutions of higher education. Final enrollment, particularly at the graduate level, will residt in some increase in the all-campus total. There are VJMo students enrolled on the Lincoln campuses of the Uui verstty. This represents an increase of l.ma students compared to a year ago. The University of Nebraska at Omaha shows a total of 12.120 stu dents, and increase of 1.243 students compared to last year. Enrollment at the University Medical Center in Omaha totals 872, an increase of 160 compared to last tall. Graduate enrollment on all cam puses of the University totals 4,321, up 2!9 students from last year. The graduate enrollment by campuses: Lincoln eamimse.s. 2.6!Ki.' up W; Uni versity of Nebraska at Omaha. 1.334, tip 2iiO; University Medical Center in Omaha. I()l. down 3. Final enrollment iigures at the graduate level are ex pected to result in some increase In the all-campus total at the University. I fe.jr if ; . r k v' if -l v I- f ;v - r " ji ,? v i - 4r" ; -zi Conducting discussion on the Women's Liberation Movement is Claudia Johnson, director of the YWCA at Iowa State University. brained? Why should one have to be helpless and fake and timid? The group indicated that some women are tired of living in the shadow of their sex. Some women want to do big things in a world that desperately needs new ideas and ingenuity and people that are dedicated to the things they want to do. "Certain functions define ' who we are: women teach, cook and sew. Men change tires and make laws. These kinds of involvement shouldn't be based on sex," said Mrs. Gwynn. She cited an example: It is possible for a woman to have a family and a career. But does anyone ever wonder if it is possible for a man to combine a family and a career? "liaising children is human." she said. "There is no reason for men to be shut out of child-raising ... or for women to be shut out of the business world, either." A girl from the audience asked why the movement isn't called a "sexual libera tion movement for men as well as women. Why isn't a man able to do things outside his pre-determined role? Why can't men cry, or be gentle? Isn't he being deprived as much a s women?" "Men as a group make all the decisions. They dominate the world," she answered. "If you put men In a group of women that were trying to find out where they're going or what they are, you would lose that rapport that develops between women who think together." "If men want liberation," she added, "they will have to fight with other men on their own." One of the five men in the group of about 25 people brought up the parallel between the black movement and the women's movement. He felt that black men define manhood in the same terms a white male views women, making her subservient to him. "I heard a black militant say the other day that 'He wouldn't let no broad tell him what to do.' " the man said. This alientation is caused by the fact that black men are so often accused of being lazy and letting their women do all the work. Conse quently, he stomps her into the ground every chance he gets to prove she is no better than he. "The black man owes more to the black woman than any black woman ever owed her man," he continued. Another student identify ing himself as an ASUN representative, tackled the problem on less theoretical grounds. He cited women's hours as an example of op pression. "Women students should be outraged," he said. "Stu. dent government can't do anything about women's hours if women themselves don't get uptight about it." ; The women were quiet. " "The reason why there aren't so many women in terested in the movement is because we really don't like each other very much," said Miss Gwynn. The group wondered out loud. Why are women jealous of other women? What makes one hostile to another without even knowing each other? The answers lie in the way women compete for men. Instead of working together as men do every day, women are always working against each other. They don't have a project or anything to tie them together. That is what the women's liberation group is trying to do. They are psychologically involved in many hang-ups, trying to understand, trying to find a place. It is slow, and calls for in dividual effort as well as group effort. The problem is complicated, deep and personal. The futures lies in the hands and heart of each woman. 'Dollf staged Nov. 21 The University dormitories' fourth musical production "is probably the biggest thing the dorms have ever done," according to the show's producer, Sue Ilouchin. "Hello Dolly," a Broadway hit several times is scheduled to open Nov. 21 at the Col isium. Tryouts which are open to all dorm residents will be held October 9, 10 and 11 in the basement of Sandoz Hall. Thursday and Friday tryouts are scheduled from 7-9 p.m., and tryouts Saturday are from 2-5 p.m. Cast selections should be announced Sunday, and rehearsals will begin im mediately afterward, Miss Ilouchin said. She added that this year's $3,000 budget represents an Increase of $2,000 over the 13 production budget of "A Funnv Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum." Panthers refused coverage of arrests by Jim Heck College I'ress Service Los Angeles (CPS) - The Black Panther Party is being slowly, carefully, but very assuredly erdicated. The highly-organized process that Is eliminating all the top leaders Is In full swing. Whether It Is conscious or not, it is indicative that the status quo has the unnerving stave anything that threatens it. There are now, at least. 40 top party officials, including chaiiniaii Bobby Scale, muk'r arrest f'oni New Haven ti Los Angeles. Tltey are being held on bail that exceeds $2 million. Kven if the chart's on the Panthers are real, eveu were the bail xoiuehow justified, eviii if l hey are all truly guilty, wouldn't the number of arrests of piesfi Join of ficials alone d"aw the atten tion of t'e press? So it seems. But while Dave mid Chet and Walter and Kric content themselves with discussions ebout other political groups such as the MOBF. the Presidio 27 or the Milwaukee 14, the press has refused to deal with the Panthers. Thus, the story of their very real oppression goes unknown - and the blatant attempts to annihilate them extru-legally flourish without crilicsni. The primary Indications of conspiracy against t h e Panthers Is the way official1? are rounding up the top leaders on charges of con spiring to murder particularly the former Panther Alex Uackley In New Haven. Conn'. Panthers charged that the police killeil Uackley. In any case, before any guilt has been proven, poiice agencies are rounding up the Panthers In the most bizarre ways Imaginable. Chairman Bobby Scale was picked up most recently. Leaving a wedding In Oakland. police grabbed Scale and brought him to the San Francisco City jail. Ills charge was the same as the other 14 now arrested In the case: murder, kidnapping. ' conspiracy to commit murd er and conspiracy to kidnap. Others were arrested in New Haven, Denver. Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. The testimony of an FBI "informer", b 1 a c k - m a n George Sams; Is the thin strand of evidence used bv I'he FBI for these mass ar rests. Sams testified that It took the whole central com milleeol the Panthers to OK the alleged execution of Uackley. What makes the situation particularly .suspect Is the method in which FBI auents are rounding up the lop of ficials: Scale's case Is typical. Normally, extradi tion proceedings would be necessary for transporting Scale to New Haven, where he would face trial. But several days after holding him In jail without bond. FBI men "swept" Scale away by car to Chicago, where, all of a sudden he was implicated with the other reslsters now facing trial In Chicago for inciting lo not during the Chicago convention. The "national" plan Is alleged to come from J. Edgar Hoover. The OK to transport Scale by car, as reported by CBS news, allegedly came from Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. This is all comxundcd by Berkeley Police Chief Bruce Baker's fumbling of a plan he devised for "annihilating the party's national office." the news of which fell Into hands of reporters. Harassment of top otticcs lu Chicago and Los Angeles continues. The most frequent situation engages police In "shoot-outs" with Panther Inside offices where it is common knowledge Panthers store arms. In Chicago. M)lice barged Into Panther offices where the Breakfast lor Children program was underway. The several dozen children were being fed when police, arm ed, ordered them to leave. Shooting began. Six'een Panthers w ere arrested. Only CBS television w ould report": "Panthers said police shot first; police said Panthers shot first. Witnesses tend to agree with Panthers." A re-run of the Chicago in cident of middle summer was held in Los Angeles Sept. 8. 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